multi-line f with ; and , or \ support about vim-sneak

[justinmk]

No problem, thanks for your question. You can do a sneak-search for 1 character by hitting <enter> instead of the second character.

Of course, that sucks compared to normal f behavior, but I believe that's the only disadvantage to using sneak to replace your other f-enhancment plugin. Right?

If that's the only thing holding you back, I think it will be pretty easy to add maybe a Vim command that takes a number argument, so you could do this:

nnoremap f :<c-u>SneakForward 1<cr>

And that would do the search without hitting enter (i.e., the search maxes out at 1 character).

On the other hand, Sneak is not intended to be a feature-for-feature replacement for all of the f-enhancement plugins, but rather solve the common case in a sensible and reliable way such that any minor differences are not missed.

Let me know your thoughts.

[oracal]

That would provide the functionality that I was after. Whether or not you think that your plugin should incorporate this is up to you.

I feel that this feature would have to be added to a plugin like yours (rather than using separate plugins) to deal with multiple plugins overriding the ; and , keys, Unless there is a way around this?

Btw thanks for replying so quickly :)

Tom

[justinmk]

If that's the only thing that the f-enhancement plugin provides that sneak doesn't I think it is worth adding. And it will be a trivial code change anyway. Should be fixed in a day or so.

Thanks.

[justinmk]

@oracal Try these settings:

    nnoremap f :Sneak!         1<cr>
    nnoremap F :SneakBackward! 1<cr>
    xnoremap f :<c-u>SneakV!         1<cr>
    xnoremap F :<c-u>SneakVBackward! 1<cr>

That should give you multi-line f.

I hope to make it less hideous at some point, but want to let this bake for a bit. Let me know how it goes.